Do you have too much stuff in your garage? Then hold a yard sale. Use freecycle. Donate your unwanted legacies to a good cause. But keep the vehicle that cost you a healthy five figured sum inside of that garage.
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Eastbourne Today: Community rallies around Eastbourne mum after fire destroys home
Kimi and Richard boxed up their unwanted items and went via Polegate to pick up the sofas they had found on Freecycle before driving to Lewes to meet Tania and her girls.
Kimi said, “She couldn’t have been more grateful.
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BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine: In Depth: Your Money Saving Tips – 07/10/2011
Here’s a good shout from James Lane on Facebook:
“Join your local group from The Freecycle
Network; stuff that one person doesn’t need is offered up for free
for folks in their communities. It not only strengthens communities,
but can be a great way to save a lot of money!”
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Green & Save: How YOU Can Go Green with SIM Only Deals
Major retailers such as Radio Shack, Office Depot, Best Buy and Staples will refurbish phones and resell them to the public. The information on the phone will be replaced, and a new SIM card will be installed. The phone will then be useable, and the environment will be in a better condition. Freecycle.org is a website that also recycles phones for new customers.
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This Is Money: Feeling the pinch? Six risk-free ways to stretch your spending power and boost ..
RECLAIM RUBBISH
Could someone else’s cast-off become your cherished possession? More than 2.4 million people are signed up to the Freecycle network, effectively a series of local groups allowing members to offer and exchange unwanted items.
The concept was pioneered by the Freecycle movement in the US and has been established in Britain since 2003. There are now 540 groups, accessed via uk.freecycle.org.
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BBC News: Storage mania
Such a mentality explains the success of the website Freecycle, a community of users who give away the objects they no longer need to other people who do need them.
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The Guardian: Saving money with vouchers, discount codes and freebies
Recycle/giveaway sites
Probably the most famous of the recycling sites, where you can pick up unwanted items for free or give away your own, is the Freecycle Network, which matches people who have things they want to get rid of, with people who can use them.
The laudable goal is to save landfill, and the result for bargain-hunters is a great way to pick up freebies. Run by local volunteer moderators, the first UK Freecycle group was set up in London in 2003, and there are now 540 across the country, with 2,490,981 members. You simply sign up with a group in your local area and then can post free “wanted” and “offer” messages and respond to other members’ postings by email.The person giving away an item decides who gets it from the responses and sets up a collection time, posting a “taken” message on the item once collected.
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